City Of Madison News Mayor's Newsletter : August 22, 2022

From: City Of Madison
August 23, 2022

Madison has had a very busy two weeks with multiple activities, events, and day to day production occurring. Here are just a few of the highlights:

-At Monday night’s City Council meeting Council will vote on HR Resolution 2022-227-R.  This resolution, strongly endorsed by HR, will extend the steps on our class plan from 21 to 25 starting in the 2022-2023 budget.  

-Speaking of the budget the 2022-2023 budgets have been passed on to the Mayor’s office and we are actively meeting with Department Heads as we work to prepare our recommendation to our Finance Committee.

-I attended the installation ceremony for Dr. Jimmy Hodges as the new President of Calhoun Community College. This is Calhoun’s 75th anniversary and Dr. Hodges is the 6th President of Calhoun.

-Downtown Madison is experiencing some notable business investment.   Construction is beginning on a new three tenant building on Martin Street to be located behind Madison Antiques; Holtz Leather Co., a Huntsville business, is opening a Madison location in the building at the corner of Sullivan and Main; Lemon and Lavender, an existing downtown business, is expanding and will move into the former Jacklyn’s once building remodeling is finished; and a new food establishment will be moving into 20 Martin Street in early Fall.

-During our last two weeks our Madison Police Department supported 2061 calls for service, issued 76 warnings and issued 54 citations.

-The final “concert in the park” took place on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at Homeplace Park.  The Zooks preformed.  In addition . the Shoppes of Downtown Madison Third Thursday event was held…attendance at both events continues to grow!

-Our Madison Community Center project (the building formally known as Three Springs) continues to move along as the designers are set to submit the 90% drawings for the building.

-Pickleball continues to explode as three pickleball clinics took place at Dublin Park this week.  Staff added pickleball lines on additional tennis courts and purchased portable netting to help meet the increasing demand for pickleball. Our internal team is working on multiple additional sites for expansion.

-Our Building Department shared that the permitting division created 191 permits, issued 226 permits, and the inspection division performed 558 inspections during the two weeks.

-Code Enforcement performed 77 inspections/re-inspections, created 55 cases, and picked up 31 signs in the R.O.W.

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